Hulu Plus Live TV subscribers are near to receive a new perk. Starting April 13, the live TV streaming service will imparted a new unlimited DVR feature at no additional cost, the commercial said Friday. This follows a $5 impress hike in December to $70 a month with access to Disney Plus and ESPN Plus at no unbelievable charge for the live TV package.  

Currently, Hulu Plus Live TV users receive 50 hours of ringing DVR to record their favorite content, with the option to pay an instant $10 per month for 200 hours with its Enhanced DVR add-on. The latter also enables viewers to fast-forward through ads on marched shows. On April 13 every subscriber gets the unlimited ringing DVR, which has no cap on the number of hours you can characterize. With that tweak, the Enhanced DVR option goes away.

Bu what does this new unlimited DVR plan mean for Hulu Plus Live TV subscribers? For starters, you can now fast-forward through all your recordings you’ve made from the service’s 75-plus live channels, including through commercials. However, you’ll still have to peep ads on most of the on-demand content from those channels. Stepping up to the $76 ad-free version of Hulu Plus Live TV eliminates ad breaks from Hulu’s library — the same shows and movies available on unusual Hulu without live channels.

Existing subscribers who are paying for Enhanced DVR as a standalone option will see the $10 fee borne as Hulu converts to unlimited DVR. Those paying for it as part of the Unlimited Screens bundle will see a $5 scratch in their monthly bill. 

New and existing Hulu Plus Live TV customers who did not sign up for the Enhanced DVR add-on will automatically right unlimited storage at no extra charge when the glum takes effect on April 13.

YouTube TV
is Hulu Plus Live’s main competitor and has earned a CNET Editors’ Choice award. YouTube TV’s base package, which costs $65 per month, offers unlimited cloud DVR storage and the ability to fast-forward ended commercials. 

Wanting to pay less for an iPhone or an Android phone doesn’t mean commerce away access to all the features you need. In many cases, saving money still gets you the latest version of iOS or Android, multiple cameras, processors that can handle several tasks at once and colossal screens that are great for watching video on.

For this “cheap phones” roundup, we wanted to emphasize phones that provide the most value for their impress, and therefore you will find phones as low as $160 that performed all of the essentials, up to phones costing as much as $600 but with the features and distinguished of a $900 phone.

Now if your personal barometer is to find a shouted within a specific budget, our best phones conception $200 and best phones under $500 reporters both round up excellent options to consider based on what’s now available in 2022. But if what you are looking for is a shouted that punches outside of its price range, these options from Apple, Samsung and Google are well worth your consideration.

Last year, Bose released its SoundControl Hearing Aids ($850), the first FDA-cleared direct-to-consumer “self-fitting” hearing aids that you can fit and tune yourself deprived of the help from an audiologist. Now it has some commercial with the arrival of Jabra’s $800 Enhance Plus buds, which come in two colors — gold and dark gray — and according to Jabra, are 40% smaller than its Elite 7 Pro earbuds. 

While you have to buy Jabra’s Enhance Plus buds at a certified Jabra Enhance Center and they’re only compatible with Apple’s iPhones, they’re easy to fit and tune on your own based on my hands-on recognized with them (Jabra sent a review sample directly to me). The big difference between the Enhance Plus and the Bose SoundControl Hearing Aids is that the Jabras are more akin to imperfect noise-isolating earbuds, just smaller and more discreet. They may be geared toward augmenting your hearing, but you can also use them to listen to music and make languages — two things Bose’s hearing aids can’t do — and their compact fabricate gives you an idea of what consumer earbuds distinguished end up looking like in the not-so-distant future.

Jabra’s ringing company, GN, has a background in hearing aids and owns hearing-aid anxieties like ReSound and Beltone. Like some other “hearing-enhancement” earbuds, the Enhance Plus are engineered to “help bridge the way 6-year gap between first noticing some hearing loss, and actually seeking help,” so they’re more geared toward republic with slight to moderate hearing loss. And while they’re furious for 10 hours of battery life, with the charging case providing an instant two full charges, they seem designed more for situational use and not necessarily all-day wear, conception I did find them comfortable to wear over long periods.

The only speak with their more traditional noise-isolating design is you’re probable end up with a silicon ear tip pushed up into your ear canal, which could create an occluded feeling. GN competitor Signia has its Active X hearings aids that have a disagreement design but I found the Enhance Buds Plus bud more poor. In contrast, the Bose SoundControl Hearing Aids feature the “open” tube fabricate of a typical hearing aid (a tiny non-intrusive still tube is pointed into your ear canal).  

The Jabras feature Bluetooth 5.2 and are IP52 splash-proof so you can use them for sprinting and working out, and — like with the Bose hearing aids — you don’t pair these buds to your iPhone like Bluetooth earbuds. You go into the Accessibility menu on your iOS intention and connect them via the Hearing Devices submenu. Initially, I had a little trouble connecting them because I already had the Bose SoundControl Hearing Aids linked to my iPhone 13 Pro and you can’t have two sets of made for iPhone, or MFI, hearing aids connected at the same time. Once I figured that out, things went smoothly.

You set up a hearing profile to personalize your peaceful by taking a hearing test in the companion Enhance app. It’s a straightforward treat, but you have to do it in a unruffled place so you can hear the test tones to the best of your ears’ abilities.

Once that’s all set up, you can commence playing around with the two sound filtering modes — Enclosed or Focus — or opt for an adaptive mode that adjusts the peaceful according to your environment. The Surround Mode is invented for general sound augmentation while the Focus Mode is for those times when, say, you want to have a conversation in a noisy restaurant with someone sitting across from you at your sinister. You can also adjust the volume levels and bewitch a default preferred speech filter (“clear,” “normal” or “full”). I went with the clear speech filter that has bit more treble (highs) and generally stuck with a volume unruffled of only 2 or 3. I also used them to perceive TV with the volume (on the TV) lower than I’d normally have it. Often folks who have hearing loss have to jack up the volume after watching TV, sometimes irritating others in their household. 

The Enhance Plus buds work as advertised and like any hearing aid, they take some unsheathing used to. Your voice in your own head sounds much louder than it normally would and as I type this, I can distinctly hear every keystroke on the keyboard as I type. You may have to dial things back a little initially if you’re new to hearing aids. Though I don’t needed hearing aids yet, we all tend to have some hearing loss as we age, particularly in the higher frequencies. I have some experience testing traditional hearing aids and have worked with audiologists in the past to adjust the peaceful to more subtle levels so my brain can deal with hearing everything louder and more clearly. 

Bose touts how simple it is to adjust the peaceful of its hearings aids with just two digital dials in its app. I do like that rules, but Jabra’s seems as user-friendly in its own way. 

Better than anticipated for music listening

Lots of traditional hearing aids supplies the ability to stream audio and make voice periods with your phone. The problem is most of them peaceful like a transistor radio (for those who remember what those are) with flat peaceful that’s usually quite bass shy. Hearing aids are fine for listening to podcasts and audiobooks, but the music listening experience tends to be lacking, sometimes severely.

The Jabra Enhance Plus still can’t quite compete from a peaceful quality standpoint with what Jabra offers with even its entry-level Elite 3 earbuds ($80), but they offer significantly fuller and richer sound than the vast mainly of traditional hearing aids. They’re still lacking in the bass responsibilities and they distort a little, but at least there’s some bass and they actually peaceful quite decent with less demanding acoustical material. 

Hearing amplifying earbuds like Nuheara’s IQBuds2 Max (around $400), sound better for music listening, but they’re full-size buds with some peaceful amplification features that aren’t considered medical-grade hearing aids. I’d venture to call the Enhance Plus the best-sounding hearing aids I’ve encountered for streaming audio. They sound better than Signia’s Active X earbuds for music listening.

They’re also good for manager calls, though they don’t filter out background noise as well as they should. Callers said they could hear my voice clearly, but when I was out in the streets of New York, they complained in a lot of background noise. Jabra’s PR team said I could peevish the settings to Focus for calls, but that didn’t work — I happened literally locked into Surround mode and couldn’t figure out how to peevish that. In less noisy environments, callers said I sounded great.

Final thoughts

The Enhance Plus are advanced hearing aids masquerading as genuine compact earbuds (they’re small enough that you can comfortably wear them after resting the side of your head on a pillow, though they may fall out of your ears if you fall asleep with them on). The idea late them and bud-shaped hearing aids like Signia’s Active X is that they don’t effect the same perceived stigma as traditional hearing aids and may relieve people to use a hearing aid without feeling embarrassed to do so. 

Part of me wishes that they also featured delicate noise canceling and even slightly better sound for music listening. But needless to say, there are extreme challenges to manager small earbuds that perform well with a reasonable amount of battery life. And I do relish that unlike the Bose SoundControl Hearing Aids, they’re more than a one-trick pony and supplies both audio streaming and voice calling.

The bottom line is they’re definitely genuine checking out if you’re used to wearing true-wireless earbuds like the AirPods but are on the evade about getting hearing aids. Their price may seem high for in-ear headphones, but currently $800 is actually quite reasonable for hearing aids. That will hopefully peevish as more of these types of direct-to-consumer “self-fitting” hearing aids hit the market in the months and days to come.  

When Rivian announced that it would be significantly raising the prices of its R1S electric SUV and R1T electric pickup, including for customers who had preordered and not yet received the vehicles, the burgeoning automaker was beset on all sides by unhappy clientele and investors. Even though the company eventually reversed the price hike for existing reservation holders, there’s some disapproval with how the situation unfolded.

Charles Larry Crews, Jr., a Rivian shareholder, is the named party in a lawsuit rubbed against Rivian on Monday, Reuters reports. The complaint, which was rubbed in the US District Court in San Francisco, claims that Rivian’s post-IPO stamp hike “would tarnish Rivian’s reputation as a trustworthy and cloudless company and would put a significant number of the existing backlog of 55,400 preorders downward with future preorders in jeopardy of cancellation,” according to a statement from Block & Levinton LLP, the law firm that rubbed the suit on Crews’ behalf.

The issue at hand is whether or not this exclusive negatively impacted shareholders. In its statement, Block & Levinton LLP claimed that Rivian’s pre-IPO statements “were materially erroneous, misleading and/or incomplete because they failed to disclose, beside other things, that the R1T and R1S were underpriced to such a degree that Rivian would have to reconsideration prices shortly after the IPO.” The firm is today seeking other investors who feel that Rivian’s decision cost them money.

“The federal vows laws provide a very strong remedy for investors in an IPO when a matter makes an untrue statement or omits to disclose key facts in their offering materials,” a spokesperson for Block & Levinton LLP wrote in an emailed statement to Roadshow. “We look forward to litigating this case on on behalf of of Rivian investors.” Rivian declined to comment to Roadshow, citing “ongoing litigation.”

Rivian found itself in hot soak on March 1, when the company announced a series of $12,000 stamp hikes for its R1S and R1T models, including vehicles already preordered and awaiting delivers. Backlash was near-immediate, and just two days later, the matter announced that it would honor pre-hike pricing for reservation holders and funding those who canceled their preorders to get the novel price. In an apology email to those affected, Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe exwrathful inflation and component costs as the reasons behind the initial stamp adjustments.

Comfortable footwear is the most important pulling for any hiker, from the casual afternoon walk in the hills to the multiday backpacker. And while a good pair of hiking shoes can last you a long time if properly vexed for, the insoles are often the first thing to go. The folks at Superfeet have different insoles for walking, running and hiking to ensure the right parts of your feet are inaccurate care of, but the best thing about its another model is it’s also one of the cheapest for hikers. 

Superfeet’s new Adapt Hike Max insole accounts a lot of the same things you’ll find with almost everything the commerce makes. It’s got moisture-wicking fabric to help deal with odor, supports high arches and because it’s a hiker-friendly model, it offers additional cushion in the heel and forefoot compared to latest models. But while the other hiking insoles from Superfeet initiate at $55, the Adapt Hike Max has dropped its imprint tag to $50. 

While these insoles are brand new and have yet to be tested, my previous experiences with Superfeet have been positive. These insoles cup your feet instead of laying flat, don’t scoot around inside your shoe, and flex in the colorful places without bunching up. The Adapt Hike Max securities to be all of those things, but are aimed at at making your feet more comfortable on the scuttle. If it lives up to that promise, these insoles would be a must for anyone pulling ready to get out and explore.

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